I've been trying to change the text within a SimpleButton instance using this:
var drawButton:SimpleButton = main.drawButton;
var upButton:DisplayObjectContainer = drawButton.upState as DisplayObjectContainer;
var upButtonText:TextField = upButton.getChildAt(1) as TextField;
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I've created a Button in Adobe Flash CS5, it's a Symbol, and its type has been set to Button.
The button has a dynamic textfield with the instance name label.
I've set the class of this Button to MenuButton, and I've set the class to Export for ActionScript.
This is the code of the MenuButton class:
Code:
package
{
import flash.display.SimpleButton;
import flash.text.TextField;
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Whenever I put a string in MenuButton's constructor, label's text doesn't change.
TypeError: Error #1034: Type Coercion failed: cannot convert flash.display::SimpleButton@f8beaf1 to flash.text.TextField.
I put in a dynamic textbox and attempt to print something into it. but once i put in that textbox, i get the above error when i debug.
With the GUI (Flash CS3), I made a button that included an instanced dynamic textfield. Whenever I try to access it, I get the error message 1119: Access of possibly undefined property
The line is:
big_btn.labelTxt.text = "Start";
the button is named big_btn and the textfield is name labelTxt
If I change big_btn to a MovieClip, no error and it works.
Can you imbed an instance inside a SimpleButton? If so, how? If not, what's the logic behind allowing it in a MovieClip, but not in a SimpleButton?
I just spent three hours on trying to understand basic positioning of TextFields and SimpleButtons...
I have a movieclip with a dynamic TextField and a SimpleButton inside. The TextField is NOT inside the SimpleButton (because then I can't change the text dynamically).
I want the TextField centered in the SimpleButton but when I set the Textfield.x it is displayed somewhere completely different than when I set the SimpleButton.x to the same value. Regardless of if I do i programmatically or not.
I was hoping to extend the simple button class in order to have it contain a text field that I can set with code but still have the benefits of the up/over/ states etc... (To set a textfield within a SimpleButton doesn't seem possible with SimpleButton out of the box, you cant reference anything in it).
View 0 RepliesI created a button (button symbol), inside this button symbol there is a vector shape which will change colours in mouse over and a dynamic text field. i want to use this button symbol in more than one locations in my stage. so i need to change the label of these instances (by changing dynamic text ). but i can't access the dynamic text in as3 using following code,
btnsample.txtbtnlabel.text = "button label"
this code is working fine for a movie clip symbol but not for a button symbol.
I have a video gallery that generates a menu from xml.I first create a container then add textfields as menu items to the container I have listeners for mouse OVER on OFF for each menu item as welll as a function to change the text color ON CLICK.What I need to do is figure out how to switch a previously clicked menu item's text color back to "OFF" color when a new menu item is clicked But I Can not figure out how to traverse the display heiracrhy to get to the textField's color in all the other menu items.
heres the function:
ActionScript Code:
//create Moviclip to hold menu
function createMenuContainer():void
{
[code]....
so the video menu item's heirachy is some thing like
getChildByName("menu_container").getChildByName("v ideo_"+ c).getChildByName("title_text").textColor
but of course this does not work. I think my logic is reasonably sound I just not sure of the correct syntax to get at the textField.textColor of all the other menu items that ARE NOT clicked on the Mouse Click Event of a menu item that is clicked.
I'm trying to create a class that acts just as an normal textfield, same properties and all, but that also draws a background filled with a gradient behind the text. I'm not focusing on the gradient yet , just trying to figure out how to assemble the code... Is this the right approach?
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I have a movie clip which animates out and then places an input textfield on the last frame for the user to type in to. The main movie clip is controlled from external ActionScript. Once the last frame hits and the input field shows I want to focus the users cursor with focus(); but I can't figure out how to call to that TextInput from the time line. mytext.focus(); ???
View 3 RepliesI have made a textfield i m trying to access that from my class but it shows error[code]...
View 3 RepliesI'm new to AS3 and I'm trying to load a data from a XML file ("AppData") and set the data (text) in a dynamic text field("Label") on the stage. For accessing and manipulating the XML file ,I have an external as file with a class called "DataClass". And I running scripts in project frame to access the data from XML in the class "DataClass" to set it in the text field.
View 2 RepliesI have a dynamic textfield in a libraried movieclip.
I referred to the movieclip from an external class and have the linkage setup for it.
However, no matter what I try to do to instanciate the text field inside it, I keep getting:
Error #1010: A term is undefined and has no properties.
Now I really want to have this dynamic textfield inside the movieclip because it's part of a preloader so I don't just want to addChild to the stage. So Now I think I can't just build it.
I've been working on this all afternoon long and can't seem to shake this error.
I'm trying to create a background for a textfield like this: When I access the textWidth property it always seems to be the total width. Which is fine for all the lines expect the last. So it possible to access the width of the last line text?
View 8 RepliesI have a menu with button objects in As3. I want to display the page where user is and for this I must show buttons' over state (which is mc) when flash loads. I'm sending the page parameter to flash. I just need to play the movie clip inside the specific button. Looking for something like:
btn1.m1.gotoAndPlay(1); or btn1.m1.play();
TextField objects have a built in context menu containing items which target cut, copy, paste, delete and select all events.i would like to map keyboard keys and modifiers to these events to obtain their free functionality.
View 1 RepliesI've created several textFields, writing:
ActionScript Code:
for(i=0;i<=10;i++){
this.createTextField("texto"+i,i+1,100,100,100,100);
};
That's O.K. But I can't put a text in them... when I write
ActionScript Code:
for(i=0;i<=10;i++){
["texto"+i].text = 15;
};
It simply doesn't work!
In my main swf I load preloader swf that contains two layers on time line. First layer is gradient shape and second layer is dynamic text field with instance name preloaderTxt that I am trying to access. Well I load it with success and in event complete I have this code:
Code:
preloader = new Sprite();
preloader = Sprite(loader.content);
preloaderHolder = new Sprite();
stage.addChild(preloaderHolder);
preloaderHolder.addChild(preloader);
I tried this:
trace(preloader.getChildAt(1));
trace(preloader.getChildAt(1).name);
First trace is: [object TextField]
Second trace is: preloaderTxt
But when I try to set its text property like this:
Code:
preloader.getChildAt(1).text = "test"
i get this error: 1119: Access of possibly undefined property text through a reference with static type
Code:
flash.display:DisplayObject.
I'm working on a Flash project using ActionScript 3.
Our interface switches between different modes by adding and removing the direct children of the main stage--we call these scenes.
The problem I've encountered is this: One of these scenes has a SimpleButton (flash.display.SimpleButton) with distinct up and over states. When I mouseover a button, it goes to the over state as expected. But if the application automatically switches to a new scene (in this case, a video finishes and the app moves on) and then the user navigates back (causing the original scene to be re-added), the button stays in the over state until I mouse back in and then out again. I'd like to be able to force that button back into its up state.
I've tried setting b.overState = b.upState, but then there's no appearance change on subsequent rollovers. I've also tried dispatching a ROLL_OUT event to the button object, but that doesn't do anything either.
other than implementing something from scratch that exposes a way to force a state change?
I am receiving the following compile time error when attempting to extend the SimpleButton class in AS3:
1017: the definition of base class SimpleButton was not found
and the code:
package com.shakti.gameState{
import flash.display.SimpleButton.SimpleButton;
public class buttonTile extends SimpleButton {
public var id:int;
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I'm loading a random quote from an xml file. No problem with it.I want a button that refreshes the quote when pressed.[code]I returns: Property data not found on flash.display.SimpleButton and there is no default value.I've tried to convert the button "Again" to a movieclip but it doesn't work.
View 2 RepliesI have two flash files (say screenOne.fla and gameA.fla). After importing the main symbol of screenOne.fla into gameA.fla as a movieclip symbol (call it screenOneSymb), the simple buttons in the instance of screenOneSymb do not work. By "do not work" I mean they have no rollover, not mouse action, nothing. If I go into the edit "screenOneSymb" in gameA.fla and turn on "Control->enable simplebuttons" the buttons will work while in edit "screenOneSymb" but not on the main flash stage. I've worked around it, but this is driving me crazy. How do I import multi-layered movieclip symbols (with buttons and animations, etc, etc) and get them to work out of the box?
View 4 Repliesthis may be a basic thing, but i couldn't find an answer by serching internet. I have created a simple button - Istance name = "btnsample"and there are two layers layer 0- button design with rollovers - layer 1- dynamic text field - instance name = "txtbtnlabel"btnsample.txtbtnlabel.text = "new button label;but it's giving followin error :-119:Access of possible undefined propety txtbtnlabel through a reference with static type flash.display:simpleButton.
View 2 RepliesIm trying to make my buttons work.. but Im getting this error message when I click on my buttons any help will be appreciated.....
ReferenceError: Error #1069: Property names not found on flash.display.SimpleButton and there is no default value.
at onewaywesite_fla::MainTimeline/clickSection()
ReferenceError: Error #1069: Property gotoAndStop not found on flash.display.SimpleButton and there is no default value. at AS3RPG_fla::MainTimeline/switchToFHero() Im still new to As3 eventho i have some decent experience in As2, i understand the problem im just not sure how to correct it since As2 buttons obviously didnt need this.
View 7 RepliesI'm currently working on editing the pages on my website but for some reason these errors are apearing. Also some of the text that should be on the .swf disapears. Any help will be apreciated
This is error I am getting:
TypeError: Error #1034: Type Coercion failed: cannot convert flash.display::SimpleButton@40692fa1 to flash.display.MovieClip.
at flash.display::Sprite/constructChildren()
at flash.display::Sprite()
at flash.display::MovieClip()
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i am using the script:imagesb_btn.setSize(width, height);imagesb_btn.setSize(100, 50);but i keep getting the above error message when i try to publish.As far as i am aware im using as3 script in an as3 movie.
View 4 RepliesTypeError: Error #1034: Type Coercion failed: cannot convert flash.display::SimpleButton@28cfdfa1 to fl.text.TLFTextField. at editor/setmyFormat().There is no SimpleButton in this project, so I cannot figure this one out.this is the line of code causing the problem.
var mainText:TLFTextField = TLFTextField(e.target);
...but I keep getting these errors (i will post them in order below):
1119: Access of possibly undefined property onRollOver through a reference with static type flash.display:SimpleButton.
1119: Access of possibly undefined property onRollOut through a reference with static type flash.display:SimpleButton.
1119: Access of possibly undefined property onRollOver through a reference with static type flash.display:SimpleButton.
1119: Access of possibly undefined property onRollOut through a reference with static type flash.display:SimpleButton.
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This is the code I am using:
thumb1.onRollOver=function(){
this._alpha=100;
}
thumb1.onRollOut=function(){
[code]...
What do I need to add to this to make it work.
what is error 1069?, the line in red drops error, any clue?.....
Code:
myloader.contentLoaderInfo.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, loaderFunction);
//event listener sub buttons control loaded movie
function loaderFunction(evt:Event):void {
[Code].....
additional info about the error: Property content not found on flash.display.SimpleButton and there is no default value. at MethodInfo-2()